Kentuckysucks

He didn’t hire or want Woodson.

He’s Steve Alford. Same age too I believe.

Who said anything about making it public?

Then great. We will all be elated in a few weeks. But if he can’t make up his mind move on.

We need to move on. He wants the job or he doesn’t. If he does he would’ve said yes by now.

Drew should be the obvious #1 assuming Brad and Dusty are out. I’d be shocked if he wasn’t #1 on Dolson’s board. Better hope we get him or a lot of people will be disappointed and a good chance we’re hiring another coach in a few years.

He'd be 61 when the season starts and he's another Alford. Good at small schools not cut out for a big job. I promise you they'd regret that hire. The fans would be rooting for his firing from the jump. Much better to go with an up and comer if it got that far. I highly doubt it does.

I’ll never understand the McDermott love. I’m very confident he’d be an epic failure. I can’t always spot success even if it’s right in front of me but I can almost always spot a train wreck a mile away. We do not want McDermott.

Some good points here. Now which of our potential targets set the single season win record at their prior school?

Nope there's none. If you have no plans to leave you gladly agree to a higher buyout in exchange for a higher salary or guaranteed NIL funds.

Turgeon is not under consideration don’t be crazy. He wouldn’t crack the top 25 of realistic candidates.

A 12 pack of Natty Daddy.

There’s an obvious solution ;-)

And Mike Davis knocked off the #1 team in the tournament.

I think it was Woody that actually said that.

But he’s going to bring Crean in as his lead assistant to help mend fences.

There’s a good post from the athletic department guy on HSN that will probably get this thread humming today.

Mike Davis wasn’t qualified to coach BSouth when hired. Sampson was great but couldn’t follow the rules. Crean was very weird and an average coach at best. Had 4 of the worst seasons in program history at Georgia before being fired. Is now completely unhireable. Archie…see the Tweet above. Woodson no comment needed. You really have to ask yourselves just how incompetent is the Indiana administration?

Amazing how bad our coaching hires have been. I’m absolutely confident that we’re getting our best coach since Sampson. https://x.com/rhodyvault/status/1895083642239713343?s=46

Drew. Young enough he can be the coach for a while. Great recruiter with Indiana ties. Has a national title so if it doesn’t go as planned no one can really blame Dolson. The ultimate safe hire.

He and his agent held all of the bargaining chips. UM had no idea if he was planning to take the IU job or not. You may be right but I fully believe he could’ve gotten more money from UM. A lot more probably.

The weird thing about that extension is that the buyout only went up to $7.5M which we could easily afford. Just seemed odd to me. You would think UM would’ve insisted on a buyout well into 8 figures. I don’t like to be conspiratorial but can we rule out the idea that Dolson thinks he has his guy and communicated that Dusty but also let him know that things can always fall through?

I’ve wondered about him. You know their NiL has to be crap. He’s getting up there but was the runner-up twice. It’s gotta be hard to get that close and never be able to close it. Maybe he knows his window at Gonzaga has closed and he wants to go for a title. I’d be fine with it if he’s committed to coaching another 8-10 years. He could have another dui though.